Given how the story progresses and what ends up happening story wise, a mage/wizard character is probably the “best story” choice as it most accurately aligns with what drives the story.

You should def checkout “Death Must Die”. You basically move around collecting upgrades, auto-killing hordes of enemies, and when you level up you pick one of three buffs/abilities from one of ten gods. The buffs/abilities have both ranks and levels. There are 3 acts to play thru each with different mobs. After you beat all 3, you can add more effects to mobs to increase difficulty and rare equipment drop rates. The acts have a 20 min timer, but of course it pauses when you’re choosing buffs or the game is otherwise stopped. There’s six characters to pick from each with unique a talent tree that enhances your playstyle.

Arch put out a statement saying users should update to a non infected binary even though it doesn’t appear to affect Arch https://archlinux.org/news/the-xz-package-has-been-backdoored/

However, out of an abundance of caution, we advise users to remove the malicious code from their system by upgrading either way. This is because other yet-to-be discovered methods to exploit the backdoor could exist.